A hotlink protection problem

[Adam_Y]

Hi folks,

I've tried searching for a solution, but with no luck, so I thought I'd ask your help –

I make the webcomic, The Flowfield Unity (http://www.theflowfieldunity.com), and someone keeps 'suggesting' my comic images to stumbleupon, rather than the actual page... aside from not getting what little ad revenue I would from the hits, it also chews through my bandwidth.

So I turned on hotlink protection and all seemed well until I needed to turn it off again. Since doing so my site just lists all but the main index page as 'not found'.

This means I now have to leave the hotlink protection on to keep my site up...

What's going on and is there any way I can fix it? I know now that I can manually edit my htaccess files to stop stumbleupon, but I'm unwilling to try any of that with the hotlink protection enabled.

Thank you for your time... and anyone that can provide a definitive solution can have a free copy of my print comic, if they like.

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[Adam_Y]

I should mention, my problem with hotlink protection is that it is rather cumbersome when I only want to block one site... I don't mind people hotlinking to my images on their blogs and such, just no direct access to the images folder.

[redsox9]

In your .htaccess file, make sure that the following line still exists:


RewriteEngine on

I had turned hotlink protection for a time and then turned it off, and my PHP-coded site went kooky for a time. Perhaps this is the reason?